Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-20
QUEER BRITISH PEERS.
Bohemian NobIemen Who Are z Present Astonishing Society i'm Ems land.

Bohemian Nobiemen Who Are at
 Present Astonfshing Society i'm Eng
 land.
 From the New York Sun.1
 The estates of the Earl of Donoughmore
 are in Kerry. Not long ago the noble lord
 made trip to Australia and brought back
 with him a young bride, very beautiful
 girl, the daughter of Colonel Stevens, we'll
 known Australian. The return was a triun-
 phant one and was signalled by grand well
 come, fireworks, arches of flowers and all the
 rest of it, organized by Lord Norton, the
 earl's particular friend Only last year the
 earl was still big star in the aristocratic
 Armament and in the House of Lords he
 moved the address to the Queen. But sud-
 denly there has come change. The earl is
 missed from his accustomed paths. His friends who know the cause of his disap- pearance keep it to themselves. The rest of his circle knows in general way that he
 used to have money from Ireland; that he
 has not any now, and they point tearfully to
 new victim of the land league. The true
 facts about the Irish landlord, of which the English public will not be told are these: He
 has mortgaged his estates until the rent roll
 no longer sufices to pay interest on the debt,
 and has run away from his young wife, who
 has no fortune with which to support him.
 He now goes about the country with troop
 
 star in whose wake he is travelling is tenth-
 rate actress named Kate Eversley.
 Lord Norton, the former friend of the earl, is living at Brighton, and on Monday last he was taken with an sristocratic inn pulse to go stunning. In a dingy bar- room attached to low music hall his lord- ship came across an interesting couple. They were very cosy over pot of small beer, half loaf and large Spanish onion, which they were sharing in friendly spirit. One of the couple whose picturesque ap- pearance had attracted Norton was Kate Eversley. The other was the Earl of Dons oughmore. Lord Norton was shocked and he gave vent to his feelings in a pathetic ''My God!" He proceeded to remonstrate with his former associate, and to reproach him for deserting his wife for such com. pany, but although the noble earl had nothing to say for himself, Kate Eversley did have something to say. She said it so vigorously, and championed the cause of his downfallen lordship so enthusiastically | that the other lord was Yanquished, and ! hastily abandoned the effort to reform his friend.
 A fit companion to the Earl of Donough. ! more is Lord Headley, another Irish land lord. This peer of the realm has long been known as 8 bad lot, but of late he has fallen so low that 8 study of him becomes interest ing on account of the depths to which he has sunk. He is entirely without money and has so often deceived his friends that no one can be found to lend him a pound. Last week he slept for two nights on the Thames en- l bankment on one of the garden seats, not ! having even the two pence necessary for a thief's bed. This week he has earned five pounds by introducing to city sharper a youth impecunious at present, but who is sure to come into property. The sharper csshes 8 bill for the youth at seventy per cent. or so, and nay Lord Headley gets his wages as dscoy. Both of the aristocrats de- scribed are at the present moment members of the House of Lords, the superior branch of Englsnd's law-making machine, and should 1t be necessary they could both be whipped up, one from his strolling players company and the other from his bench on the embankment, to vote with other noble lords to make law of the coercion bill. A peer's eldest son has just made an offer of marriage to fair barmsid at the Gaiety restaurant. She has accepted him and the banns will Ee called for the first tins to-mor- TOW, when the respective names, which are now being kept secret, will be publicly an noUnced.